Feisal Abdul Rauf (the public face of the plans to build a 'mosque' at Ground Zero) tells us that HE, and muslims around the world, are 'watching this issue very closely'. Good!
This morning, I got an email (indirectly) that Debra Burlingame sent out. Debra is the sister of a victim of 9/11, and a vocal member of 9/11 Families for America, and Keep America Safe:
The so-called "Ground Zero Iman," Feisal Abdul Rauf said in an extensive CNN interview last night that if he moves the mosque and Islamic center to a location farther away from Ground Zero, this will cause violence in the Muslim world. "They are watching this issue very closely." He said that his is now a "national security issue" and that the violence will be "worse than the Danish cartoons" crisis because "the U.S. has a big footprint." He referred to our troops, our embassies and Americans traveling all over the world. In other words, targets.
This is a thinly veiled threat that we should not let him get away with it. If we do, he will have established himself as the de facto ambassador to the Muslim world, and he can continue to use extortion to regarding US foreign or domestic policy. We will have created a monster.Note, also, that he rejected the notion that Park Place is sacred ground, because there are strip clubs in the vicinity. Families, our response should be that, unfortunately, WE DIDN'T GET TO CHOOSE WHERE OUR LOVED ONES WERE TORN TO PIECES. He said the building is not located "at Ground Zero proper" and that "no bodies were found there."
This shows a fundamental lack of sensitivity, and basic compassion as to the savage nature of the attack, as well as the emotional trauma victims' loved ones have been through as they sought their loved ones remains on the rooftops, under the streets and in buildings outside the perimeter of what he called "Ground Zero proper."
The interview can be seen on YouTube in 9 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysMxIhMllU&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_519909
Take a look at this video from the CNN interview with Feisal Abdul Rauf , courtesy of Family Security Matters. He says he is worried about violence from the radicals of the muslim world in America. He talks 'sensitivity' etc etc etc blah blah blah.
No matter that Gibbs (here) and Pelosi (here) try to say the building of the mosque on such sacred ground is a "local issue" - this despite BHO weighing in and thus acknowledging it is a national issue - the world IS watching. The world IS outraged at the plans to build a mosque on ground where remains of the 9/11 victims are still being found.
Pelosi from The Telegraph in London:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the decision on whether to build a mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero should be up to New York officials. Pelosi said the issue is an "urban development decision," and called for an investigation into how groups protesting the mosque are being funded. (here)
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